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1876 US election holds record for highest turnout
Washington: The voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election was massive by recent standards. But it didn't come close to surpassing the record set in 1876. That year, 81.8% of eligible American voters went to the polls. The winner was Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, though he received fewer votes than his Democratic opponent, Samuel Tilden. Because 20 electoral votes were disputed, neither won a majority of the Electoral College, the election went to the House of Representatives, and it set up a commission that awarded the presidency to Hayes. No reliable data is available until 1828. But during the last two-thirds of the 19th century, voter turnout of more than 70 percent of those eli

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